The Zapruder footage: A tragedy immortalized on film.

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The Zapruder footage: A tragedy immortalized on film

A person called Abraham Zapruder had recorded the assassination of John Fitzarlad Kennedy, a former American president. He used a 8mm camera, on the 22nd of November 1963. Zapruder was a businessman in Dallas manufacturing dresses for ladies, his business name was Jennifer’s juniors. Zapruder was therefore not a professional cameraman. He was filming the president because he was in Dallas that day going to Texas for a speech making talk. This 22-second footage is the world’s most famous home movie. Zapruder was taking the footage of president Kennedy that day because it was his only chance to picture him in Dallas, and he wanted to make it a memory.

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On 22nd November 1963 there was a motorcade with the police, secret service agents, the president with his wife and the governor. In the presidents car there was the president, the president wife, the governor and the driver. At around 12.30pm there were passing Euston street then went to turn to Elm street then to Deeley plaza. Between Elm Street and Deeley plaza an assassin fired several shots, striking the president twice, in the base of the neck and the head, and seriously wounding john connally the governor of Texas. As the shot hit the president, his wife got up the ...

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